New NRA ad: Let’s redistribute school security

posted at 8:01 am on January 16, 2013 by Ed Morrissey

The NRA seems to have adopted a new strategy in their efforts to push back gun control: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Oh, they’re not falling in line with gun bans and magazine limits — they’re just adopting Barack Obama’s playbook in arguing against them. Via Buzzfeed, here’s a new 30-second ad painting Obama as “just another elitist hypocrite” for disdaining the NRA’s proposal to subsidize armed guards in schools while send his own children to a school that has armed security on site. Why should the rich and powerful be the only families with armed security guards for their children? Redistribute the security!

You have to admire the strategy, even if you may be skeptical of the proposal. These types of events are rare to the point where most armed guards won’t ever see anything close to a Newtown over the course of their lifetimes, and school security isn’t a federal issue; it’s local, and schools can add guards now, if they want them. This is more of a pushback against the scorn heaped on the NRA for proposing the idea in the wake of Sandy Hook, even though the same scorn-heapers backed Bill Clinton’s COPS program, which subsidized armed guards in schools. That blatant hypocrisy had the White House at least belatedly considering the NRA’s proposal as one part of their response.

Politico reported membership had grown by more than 100,000 five days ago. The NRA says that when Politico reported the story, membership was close to 200,000, but the number has drastically grown in just five days. The association now has over 4.25 million members, but the NRA says that number is always fluctuating as memberships expire and new members join.

“I would say that every time President Obama opens his mouth and Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein opens her mouth and they talk about gun bans and restricting the rights of law abiding Americans, people pay attention to that and sign up,” says Andrew Arulanandam, the NRA’s public affairs director.

Yes, I think people are paying very close attention these days to Washington and the gun grabbers.

Lets pull the armed guards from Sidwell Friends and get rid of the Secret Service detail around the Obama brats. Not only would the filthy rat-eared bastard and his grifter wife object but so would the liberal elite of DC who also send their kids to the same school as the selfish mini-moochers. Including David Gregory’s kids.

Yet these are the same people out there standing on 20 tiny caskets and high-fiving each other that a man with mental problems was able to kill so many children at a time when the administration could exploit the issue to go out after the Second Amendment and the citizenry’s ability to fight back the tyranny of government.

I’m not impressed with the ad’s quality – an organization of NRA’s magnitude could definitely do better – but the message is good. Now, I want to hear Republican voices demanding that the school where O-brats study is made a gun-free zone, and branding Obama a hypocrite for refusal to comply. After all, aren’t Secret Service guys deadly enough with their hands and feet?

I caught this from a reporter on DKtv late last night as a two reporters were discussing “America’s facination with guns”. The reporter in DC was telling the reporter in Berlin that the “few” Americans who want the right to have guns is denying the “great number” of Americans who now can’t send their kids to school.

Youd think they put a gun to dear leader’s kids heads…..oh wait the left wing already did that to W….no problem with that

cmsinaz on January 16, 2013 at 8:06 AM

I’m perfectly happy with the idea that the mini-moochers should be able to fend for themselves. Every schoolchild in DC not fortunate enough to attend Sidwell Friends is exposed to illegal weapons just walking to school- and some of them have more worth than either Obama brat who are morphing into selfish vain egotists just like their parents.

This is what WE need to do on every level. The other side is the enemy and we need to treat him as such. We need to use every tool in the box against them, and that includes mockery, denigration, and even exaggeration and lies if the situation warrants it (they do it to us). We need to understand this is a street brawl. Thanks NRA for showing us the way.

We need to turn Obama into a joke 2nd term the same way they did it to GWB. We need to destroy their entire brand.

Prediction: within 6 months there will be a new federal security force protecting primary schools. Unionized and completely in lock step with all things democrat. Funded by us with a 8% clip to the party that created them. It will dwarf the TSA too.

Try buying a firearm around here these days. Old Bulgarian single shot rifles, ancient shotguns, lots of them on the shelves.

Anything new?

Unless you want a Hello Kitty AR15 in pink…seriously, gun sales and back orders for weapons have swamped the system.

What is truly disgusting is the White House using kids to get yet another message across. Having kids around Obama to push the anti-gun message, or releasing “letters” from kids as part of “it is for the children” garbage message to abrogate the Second Amendment.

IF Obama truly cared about gun violence, he’d have spent the entire time of his presidency cleaning up Chicago. Remember Chicago, where Obama was the best Community Organizer since Jesus Christ…remember from campaign 2008? That Chicago. Cleaning it up, along with ethnic urban murder hotspots…instead of pandering to gangsta rappers and crews at the White House, trying to re-live his younger days of being cool and stuff…choomin’ with the crew and all that.

attacking the young daughters of a popular president is a deranged move by a deranged organization. so is trumpeting a 0.5% increase in its membership.

oh well. it only makes victory sweeter.

sesquipedalian on January 16, 2013 at 8:12 AM

The brats of a filthy rat-eared bastard and a grifter are fair game when the bastard refuses to even voice support the same kind of protections for ordinary children who actually might contribute to society unlike the royal brats. Let them fend for themselves and if they should run into trouble, too bad. It isn’t as if society will miss them.

Even before President Obama announced his proposed gun control measures, right-wing paranoids and Republican members of Congress were raving about impeachment, incipient monarchy and civil war.

Obama’s proposal is expected to include a call for banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening the background check system for gun buyers. While Congress would have to approve those major steps, he may also lay out 19 actions he can take by executive order, such as mandating that federal agencies gather data on gun safety.

In the wake of the schoolroom massacre in Newtown, Conn., and many other brutal gun-related tragedies in recent months, ideas for dealing with school safety and mental illness are also said to be on Obama’s list. But most of the attention will be directed at his gun control plan, and much of it will be hotheaded and shrill.

The usual gun rights lunatics are preemptively saying it may be necessary to take up arms to stop the government from confiscating everyone’s guns. Rabid rocker Ted Nugent has declared Obama’s proposals “psychotic” and said putting Vice President Joe Biden and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder in charge of the task force to come up with gun legislation is comparable to “hiring Jeffrey Dahmer to tell us how to take care of our children.”
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painting Obama as “just another elitist hypocrite” for disdaining the NRA’s proposal to subsidize armed guards in schools while send his own children to a school that has armed security on site.

It’s not just that. Obama and his wife and kids are protected 24/7 by armed guards (Secret Service), at significant taxpayer expense. Just last week, Obama signed a law repealing a 1990’s law that had limited SS protection for ex-presidents to the first 10 years after they leave office.

Obama the multimillionaire, who like his buddy Bill Clinton will become even richer once he gets his multi-million-dollar, post-presidency book deal and starts his multi-million-dollar post-presidency speaking tours, will have taxpayers picking up the bill for his and his wife’s lifetime SS protection. (This is in addition to the lifetime pension taxpayers will also be providing the Obamas, as well as the lifetime payments for Obama’s ex-presidential “office” expenses).

Also, it was reported a couple of days ago that Obama’s empty house in Chicago has its very own taxpayer-paid Secret Service agent providing 24/7 security for Obama’s stuff. Anybody think the guard at Obama’s Chicago house doesn’t have a gun?

While he’s driving our economy into bankruptcy, Obama is screwing us over in every possible way. “Hypocrisy” doesn’t even begin to do justice to what this crook is getting away with.

Slightly OT. The royal limo is going to be sporting DC tags that have the “Taxation without Representation” line on them. How ironic is that when this filthy bastard doesn’t do anything by representative government if he can do it by fiat.

Think about that when the rat-eared bastard surrounds himself with the children of his parasitic supporters and explains how he needs to shred the Second Amendment on the off chance that one of these mini-parasites might actually have worth to society.

Posing as “Citizens Against Senseless Violence,” Project Veritas members visited the homes of journalists working for Westchester Journal News, MSNBC, and the Star-Ledger. They also visited the home of Eric Holder. None would take signs that say “THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE.”

Since these reporters and editors did not consider it a violation of the privacy and safety of others to reveal which homes have guns and which homes don’t, Project Veritas wented to see which of them would be willing to put a sign up publicly declaring their homes to be gun-free zones. While they didn’t find any members of the media with the strength of their convictions, they did find quite a few guns, and some good explanations for why they might be necessary….. Guns for Me, but not for Thee.(More…)
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You can’t buy a round of ammo in the town in Texas I live in.People are about to start camping out on the sidewalks waiting for the trucks to bring new inventory.

docflash on January 16, 2013 at 8:19 AM

I first read your post that you must be living in Austin or something. Places where liberals think it is cute to outlaw ammo since they can’t outlaw the Second Amendment. And I was surprised that places like that would exist in Texas.

Then I got it. It’s not a liberal thing, it’s a supply and demand thing! Keep your powder dry!

Just as Obama and his minions are using the children standing up there on the podium today, they are also using the deaths of those sweet, innocent children, murdered by a madman in Newtown, Connecticut, as an opportunity to take away the guns of innocent, law-abiding Americans. Meanwhile, the MSM cheerleaders will spend the day trying to sell Americans on what a great speech their Dear Leader just gave.

No, your kids have value to society and are not mini-moochers (I am sure). But I bet you can’t drop $40K/year per kid to send your children to an elitist private school with armed security on top of the secret service detail. I’m sure if your kids were to go off on a school trip it would not cost the American taxpayer millions.

Yet the filthy rat-eared bastard will not even voice support that Booker T. Washington Elementary or any other public DC school should have armed security just like the mini-moochers.

You have to admire the strategy, even if you may be skeptical of the proposal.

… and the ad says that Obama is skeptical about putting armed guards in schools.

Okay, maybe this is semantics, but LaPierre was roundly ridiculed for this notion.

Yet Bill Clinton in the 90’s – AND OBAMA, AS QUOTED YESTERDAY – *want* to put *more* “police” in schools. The federal government already spends money to achieve this.

Dems are not skeptical of it – unless when a conservative suggests it, perhaps – they just want *union* people doing it, on federal tax dollars.

But the IDEA is not different, and it needs to be pointed out repeatedly and every time it comes up that NRA/LaPierre are not “insane” for suggesting such a thing if Clinton/Obama are not also “insane” for the same reason.

Wanting to send the Palestinians $500 million…so they can spend it on community projects….building bombs, sending rockets into Israeli towns, strapping bombs on children to send on Israeli buses…

And Obama must be racist…since it took the deaths of a dozen white kids for Obama to get all up there in indignation, while in his own hometown (Chicago, not Mombasa) dozens and dozens of young people are killed or maimed each week from ethnic-on-ethnic gun violence.

Is there any good reason to listen to a single thing this Obama guy has to say, other than Obama telling us that he is the president?

Sesqui can’t help it. Like all liberal morons (including their Aff*rmative Act*on-credentialed Dear Leader), she can’t do math above a grade-school level.

AZCoyote on January 16, 2013 at 8:35 AM

Know what offends me most about this?

That liberals are grandstanding on a soapbox made of 20 little caskets, and on six more of adults who were heroes. If anything needed to be said by the half-black in our White House, is should be, “I am awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to every one of the lost adults at Sandy Hook.” And, really, nothing more.

I’m really tired of liberal ghouls feasting on the dead. The day Sandy Hook happened, the trolls spared us no mercy as we grieved and tried making sense of the horror. Thirty minutes after the tragedy, some liberal reporter ghoul tweeted a sarcastic comment about all those lost babies.

Never, not long as I live, will I forgive liberals for what they did that day.

And, if the half-black in our White House makes his ‘announcement’ in front of children, using them as props, he’s no better. Somehow, some way, I will find more contempt for him than I do now. And I hope the prick lives long to suffer the personal agony of being scum after having the rare chance to be a truly great man.

How about we stop with the talk about armed guards, more programs and bloated agencies, and get back to securing the rights of individuals in this country? How about discussing the futility of gun-free zones, and discuss giving teachers the right to choose to carry in the schools if they wish. Why is it so difficult to get back to basics?

the president’s daughters are protected by not a hapless moron with a pistol, who couldn’t stop the crazies anyway, but at least a dozen highly-trained professionals. you can’t do that in every school even if it were desirable.

the president’s daughters are protected by not a hapless moron with a pistol, who couldn’t stop the crazies anyway, but at least a dozen highly-trained professionals. you can’t do that in every school even if it were desirable.

Lets pull the armed guards from Sidwell Friends and get rid of the Secret Service detail around the Obama brats. Not only would the filthy rat-eared bastard and his grifter wife object but so would the liberal elite of DC who also send their kids to the same school as the selfish mini-moochers. Including David Gregory’s kids.

Yet these are the same people out there standing on 20 tiny caskets and high-fiving each other that a man with mental problems was able to kill so many children at a time when the administration could exploit the issue to go out after the Second Amendment and the citizenry’s ability to fight back the tyranny of government.

Happy Nomad on January 16, 2013 at 8:09 AM

The Zero to announce gun control while surrounded by kids…and while under protection of plain-clothes Secret Service, uniformed Secret Service, Marine helicopters, and radar enforcing a no-fly zone.